schools with good job and grad school placement services

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<p>I am not talking about the ability of talented students to land jobs on their own or about the ability of top students to get into graduate/professional school on their own.</p>

<p>Once you reach your senior year, schools already have your money, and they have little incentive to help you find a job or get into graduate/professional school. A lot of lip service is paid to this by universities but how much support do they actually provide? Which schools really try hard to help their seniors? What exactly do the best placement services do? Is it the faculty who provide excellent support, the academic department, or a separate career services office or combination? After all, one of the primary missions of higher education is to prepare you for life and career but they are not formally held accountable for what happens to their graduates. </p>

<p>Which schools provide great support and which schools forget about you once you are a senior?</p>

<p>It would be a useful thing to know when you are searching for a school.</p>

<p>things like:
career and academic planning
building placement file
coordinating recommendation letters
job search
selecting graduate schools
preparing resume’
preparing application
bringing recruiters to campus
collecting and posting job openings
making contacts through faculty or alumni
following up on your success/progress
staying in touch
and so on…</p>

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<p>Any of the top 25 private research universities, top 15 LACs and top 4 or 5 state universities.</p>

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<p>For a large state university, these programs have excellent placement records (or at least claim to have such placement):</p>

<p>Florida State - School of Hospitality ( <a href=“http://www.cob.fsu.edu/dsh/ha_major.cfm[/url]”>http://www.cob.fsu.edu/dsh/ha_major.cfm&lt;/a&gt;)</p>

<p>Florida State - Law School ( <a href=“http://www.law.fsu.edu/[/url]”>http://www.law.fsu.edu/&lt;/a&gt; )</p>

<p>There are more, but these programs make explicit claims as to graduate placement that I’ve seen so far.</p>

<p>This site ( <a href=“http://www.academic-guide.fsu.edu/[/url]”>http://www.academic-guide.fsu.edu/&lt;/a&gt; )has features for prospective students that is quite interesting. It’s virtually a short-cut to specific programs and academic maps for the entire university.</p>